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<h1>Biber: A BibTeX replacement for users of BibLaTeX</h1>
<p>The <a href="http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/biblatex.html">biblatex</a>
package is becoming the definitive citation management
tool for LaTeX users. Biblatex provides a powerful and flexible macro
interface for authors of citation styles.</p>

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Biblatex's own data backend processor, biber, allows biblatex to offer the
following features:

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<li>Deals with the full range of UTF-8
<li>Sorts in a completely customisable manner using, when available,
  CLDR collation tailoring
<li>Allows for per-entrytype options
<li>Automatically encodes the .bbl into any supported encoding
  format (&quot;Supported&quot; here means encodings supported by the
    Perl <tt>Encode</tt> module)
<li>Processes all bibliography sections in one pass of the tool
<li>Handles UTF-8 citekeys and filenames (given a suitable fully
  UTF-8 compliant TeX engine)
<li>Creates entry sets dynamically and allows easily defined static entry sets,
  all processed in one pass
<li>&quot;Syntactic&quot; inheritance via new <tt>XDATA</tt> entrytype and
  field. This can be thought of as a field-based generalisation of the
  BibTeX <tt>@STRING</tt> functionality (which is also supported).
<li>&quot;Semantic&quot; inheritance via a generalisation of the BibTeX
  crossreference mechanism. This is highly customisable by the
  user--it is possible to choose which fields to inherit for which
  entrytypes and to inherit fields under different names etc. Nested
  crossreferences are also supported.
<li>Handles complex auto-expansion and contraction of names and
  namelists (See section 4.11.4 of the BibLaTeX manual for an excellent
  explanation with examples, this is quite an impressive feature ...)
<li>Extensible modular data sources architecture for ease of adding
  more data source types
<li>Support for remote data sources
<li>User-definable mapping and suppression of fields and entrytypes in
  data sources. You can use this to, for example, ignore all
  <tt>ABSTRACT</tt> fields completely.
<li>Support for related entries, to enable generic treatment of things
  like &quot;translated as&quot;, &quot;reprinted as&quot;, &quot;reprint of&quot;
  etc
<li>Customisable labels
<li>Multiple bibliography lists in the same section with different sorting and filtering
<li>No more restriction to a static data model of specific fields and entrytypes.
<li>Structural validation of the data against the data model with a customisable validation model.
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<p>Biber has a comprehensive PDF manual which you can find on SourceForge
  in the documentation folder for the release. Much of the functionality
  is exposed through BibLaTeX and the BibLaTeX PDF manual is the primary
  source for much Biber+BibLaTeX information. Biber-only features are
  marked prominently in the BibLaTeX manual with the marginal note "Biber
  only"</p>
<p><strong>Biber 2.20 is now <a
href="http://sourceforge.net/project/platformdownload.php?group_id=228270">released</a></strong>.
It should be used in conjunction with biblatex 3.20".
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